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title: Tis true that had the King been here, we had not suffered this loss. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis true that had the King been here, we had not suffered this loss. Who acts: Tis, King, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 15

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Tis true that had the King been here, we had not suffered this loss.

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**Who acts:** Tis, King, we · **What happens:** have, be, not suffer · **To what, where:** loss

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, King, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:32:15
# text = Tis true that had the King been here, we had not suffered this loss.
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Tis |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | King |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **suffer** | past · perfect | we | this loss |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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